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Wendy Heldmann and Dionisio Gonzalez

Have been in over my head lately - my mom visited from the east coast and I spent a busy five days keeping her busy. In other news: despite the fact that I should be saving for Europe, I fell in love and purchased another art print from 20×200.com. I have long loved the work of Wendy Heldmann since I wrote an in-depth essay comparing her 2007 works on paper series to the paintings of Echo Eggebrecht. The work I impulsively rushed to purchase is called Darkness Moves:

She paints with acrylic yet treats it with such subtlety it sometimes resembles watercolour. I find that unlike mosts artists the names she gives her paintings are important. A few others from the works on paper series:

If we met would you know me

Coulda Woulda Shoulda

When I recently came across the photographs of Dionisio Gonzalez through i heart photograph, they felt eerily familiar …

Marginal IV

Heliopolis II

I recently discovered the work of Dionisio Gonzalez in Barcelona and was blown away. His landscapes are familiar and alien, beguiling and disorientating. I wanted to get inside them, wander around, figure out how each cube or jutting stairway interacts with its surroundings.